Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 14:14, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. Someone suggested the update-menus command so I tried that. That seems to be doing something because the output the command gives seems to indicate it's working but there is no visible change in my menus. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I don't have any more ideas. If it was happening to me at this time I would reinstall. Before you do however you might wait a while until someone tells us why that is the stupidest thing you could do. It seems that you have some important packages missing from your original installation, including the drakes - the packages that make up MCC (the Mandrake Control Centre). Rather than doing a complete reinstall, you might be better off just installing the missing bits. You should be able to do this through Konqueror from your CDs - if you don't know how, ask, and I'll send the instructions! Once you've got all the vital packages, I can talk you through sorting the menu problem - I had the same problem myself with menus on 9.2 and I've still got all the details on file. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
- Original Message - From: Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 3:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 14:14, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. Someone suggested the update-menus command so I tried that. That seems to be doing something because the output the command gives seems to indicate it's working but there is no visible change in my menus. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I don't have any more ideas. If it was happening to me at this time I would reinstall. Before you do however you might wait a while until someone tells us why that is the stupidest thing you could do. It seems that you have some important packages missing from your original installation, including the drakes - the packages that make up MCC (the Mandrake Control Centre). Rather than doing a complete reinstall, you might be better off just installing the missing bits. You should be able to do this through Konqueror from your CDs - if you don't know how, ask, and I'll send the instructions! Once you've got all the vital packages, I can talk you through sorting the menu problem - I had the same problem myself with menus on 9.2 and I've still got all the details on file. Margot First of all, thank you for your help. I realized that either the drakes had disppeared off my system or else they were no longer in my Path. I would be happy to reinstall the missing bits if you could please tell me how. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
eric jackson wrote: First of all, thank you for your help. I realized that either the drakes had disppeared off my system or else they were no longer in my Path. I would be happy to reinstall the missing bits if you could please tell me how. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK Eric, this *should* work as long as you have the software installer (gurpmi) installed - if you find you have no software installer you'd probably be better off doing a complete reinstall as heaven knows what might also be missing! Open a root terminal and type konqueror (without the quotes). This should open the Konqueror file manager with root privileges. Put the first Mandrake CD in whatever CD device you have. In Konqueror, navigate to the CD device (probably /mnt/cdrom) and then navigate through the folders until you find one full of rpm's. Go through the list of rpm's until you find ones with drake or drak in the name. Right click on one of these rpm's, find the software installer on the menu (it might be on a submenu - sorry, I don't remember!) and follow the instructions to install (select install, not save). If it says it wants to install other rpm's at the same time (dependencies), agree. Once you have installed everything useful-looking from the first CD, repeat with all the other Mandrake CDs. Go back to your root terminal and type mcc (again, no quotes) and the Mandrake Control Centre should come up. Get back to me once you get this far! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Monday 05 April 2004 17:49, eric jackson wrote: snip I realized that either the drakes had disppeared off my system or else they were no longer in my Path. I would be happy to reinstall the missing bits if you could please tell me how. /snip Eric, if everything else fails, you can go here : http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ and download the missing packages, i.e. the drakes. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
- Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a well-known problem with 9.2 systems. If you just updated, all you should need to do is open a terminal, 'su' to root, and enter the command 'update-menus -v'. Your menus should be back when that process is finished. --Marc Hi Marc, I tried issuing the command you suggested but it didn't change anything, as far as I can tell. Any other suggestions? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
- Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Hi Hoyt, As I mentioned I don't have mcc listed as a menu option. I don't know how to access drakemenu or MCC without using the menu. When I click on the Welcome icon I get a link called This Computer that says it will configure the computer. If I click on this computer I get this error message. Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exits. Any thoughts on what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Hi Hoyt, As I mentioned I don't have mcc listed as a menu option. I don't know how to access drakemenu or MCC without using the menu. When I click on the Welcome icon I get a link called This Computer that says it will configure the computer. If I click on this computer I get this error message. Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exits. Any thoughts on what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit In a terminal type mcc without quotes will bring mcc up John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:18, eric jackson wrote: snip Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? /snip 1. as root, run update-menus -v (watch the screen, the command doesn't exit by itself. When no more activity is seen, just press enter). 2. as root, run menudrake, edit and save. 3. if fluxbox is installed, uninstall it (there is a bug). HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 08:18, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Hi Hoyt, As I mentioned I don't have mcc listed as a menu option. I don't know how to access drakemenu or MCC without using the menu. When I click on the Welcome icon I get a link called This Computer that says it will configure the computer. If I click on this computer I get this error message. Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exits. Any thoughts on what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! - --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Open a terminal and type mcc. If you don't have a terminal try ctl-alt-F1 and try it from CLI. You might also try update-menus -v from CLI. My welcome icon has done that to me as well. But it came back. -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
- Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Sunday 04 April 2004 08:18, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Hi Hoyt, As I mentioned I don't have mcc listed as a menu option. I don't know how to access drakemenu or MCC without using the menu. When I click on the Welcome icon I get a link called This Computer that says it will configure the computer. If I click on this computer I get this error message. Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exits. Any thoughts on what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! - --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Open a terminal and type mcc. If you don't have a terminal try ctl-alt-F1 and try it from CLI. You might also try update-menus -v from CLI. My welcome icon has done that to me as well. But it came back. -- Regards; Hoyt I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. Someone suggested the update-menus command so I tried that. That seems to be doing something because the output the command gives seems to indicate it's working but there is no visible change in my menus. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 14:14, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. Someone suggested the update-menus command so I tried that. That seems to be doing something because the output the command gives seems to indicate it's working but there is no visible change in my menus. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I don't have any more ideas. If it was happening to me at this time I would reinstall. Before you do however you might wait a while until someone tells us why that is the stupidest thing you could do. -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 03:14 pm, eric jackson wrote: I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. how about drakconf. Are you root when you type it? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
Oli üks kena pühapäev, 4. aprill 2004 22:18,kui eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjutas sellise kirja: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:18, eric jackson wrote: snip Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? /snip 1. as root, run update-menus -v (watch the screen, the command doesn't exit by itself. When no more activity is seen, just press enter). I've done that several times but I haven't noticed any change in my menus. 2. as root, run menudrake, edit and save. When I enter menudrake, bash tells me it can't find the command 3. if fluxbox is installed, uninstall it (there is a bug). I will check on that in a few minutes. Thanks for the advice. Eric HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Some time ago I had same menuproblem with 9.2. From old e-mail I found this: Margot wrote: ronald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:49:53 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what I need to know is how to transfer this list of applications to the 'user' version of menudrake, so I can add them to the user menu. hey Margot, if you start menudrake as user there is an option to Use system administrator settings in the actions change-style tab HTH. ronald Thanks for the thought, but the 'system administrator' style has even less on it than the 'all applications' style that I've been using! Hi Margot, I had a similar problem with my kde, and everything I tried could not get my menus back to the way they were. update-menus -v generated some errors, I wasn'nt sure what to due about them. I did some searching and found a post on MandrakeExpert list archives by James Sparenberg heres a link. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg79939.html My problem under the file /home/mike/.menu/menudrakeentry was similar to below. ?package(menu): needs=fluxbox section=Fluxbox/Styles/usr/ icon=applications_section.png title= charset=utf8 The title= was my problem so I (knowing this is not the right way) looked at other entries guessed on what it should be so I used editer and changed title= to title=share saved the file and ran update-menus -v again and got all my menus back. Check your /home/Margot/.menu/menudrakeentry file and if you have a missing title= line post back and perhaps someone on list may have the correct entry for that particular line? Thats if, you have the same problem as I had. -- Mike -- Spirtle, n.: The fine stream from a grapefruit that always lands right in your eye. -- Sniglets, Rich Hall Friends -- Powered by Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Beta2) for i586 Registered Linux user #340381 http://counter.li.org Registered Linux machine #227943 http://counter.li.org 01:44:05 up 2 days, 2:46, 2 users, load average: 1.26, 0.91, 0.87 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 07:31 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:18, eric jackson wrote: snip Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? /snip 1. as root, run update-menus -v (watch the screen, the command doesn't exit by itself. When no more activity is seen, just press enter). 2. as root, run menudrake, edit and save. 3. if fluxbox is installed, uninstall it (there is a bug). HTH You also need to install the 6 updates to rpm. I installed all 6 manually (with the --nodeps option) and it solved my problems, allowing update-database to run properly. Do a search for update database bugfix or something similar (the Mandrake-secure servers seem to be down, so that may be a deadend). There is also a thread somewhere in this list's archives where I listed the 6 rpms that had to be installed. e Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a well-known problem with 9.2 systems. If you just updated, all you should need to do is open a terminal, 'su' to root, and enter the command 'update-menus -v'. Your menus should be back when that process is finished. --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
